Bop Yestrum

BOP YESTRUM PRESENTS A CALIFORNIAN HEATWAVE WITH:

NODZZZ (SAN FRANCISCO, WOODSIST RECORDS)
THE MANTLES (SAN FRANCISCO, SILTBREEZE / MEXICAN SUMMER RECORDS)
SEA PINKS (BELFAST, CF RECORDS)
+ BOP YESTRUM DJS

THURSDAY 17TH MARCH
THE MENAGERIE, 130 UNIVERSITY STREET
9PM / £6

NODZZZ

Nodzzz are Sean Paul on guitar, Anthony Atlas on bass, and Eric Butterworth on drums. They’re sweet dudes with an even sweeter sound, first honed on a killer single called “(I Don’t Wanna) Smoke Marijuana” b/w “We Are the Only Animals,” released on Eric’s Make a Mess imprint. Barely three minutes long, each side tore the face off of the last days of 2007, revealing a candy skeleton that had the Modern Lovers’ teeth marks in it.

The group’s self-titled debut is a grower, with ten new songs in a markedly more pop direction. You can hear the simple American pleasures of baseball, road trips and late summer within, plain as day within this record. More specifically, you can hear three guys examining where punk became something more, between notions of power pop and advanced songwriting on the Embarrassment/Big Dipper/ Pointed Sticks axis, but with the economy of the Minutemen or Beat Happening. They’re in and out before you know it, having firmly planted the seeds of catchy melodies between your ears.

“Like the Feelies or Modern Lovers before them, the group wears its quirkiness as a kind of badge of honor” - Pitchfork

“The band Nodzzz, from San Francisco, thinks harder, worries more and sings earnestly about how life goes by too quickly.” - The New York Times 

mp3: Time (What’s It Going To Do?): 

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THE MANTLES

With two acclaimed seven-inches under their belt, The Mantles answer the call for more with a stunning debut LP sure to please all who cross its path. The Mantles have been dead-on in distilling a contemporary pop / psych concoction that mixes equal parts early Chills with early Dream Syndicate—and really, who among us wouldn’t want a bottle of that with which to quietly tipple the day away? 

Recorded by Greg Ashley, the LP taps said hybrid, and if anything, burrows deeper into the core of rock, extracting essential magma that fuses early SF Ballroom psychedelia, Byrds-ian jangle-pop, and the Velvet Underground’s extraordinary ability for serpentine leads and bridges. And yep, that pretty much covers all the bases.

mp3: Don’t Lie

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SEA PINKS

Sea Pinks is a new band inspired by sea glass, bleached grass and ghost guitars. Formed in Belfast in 2010 the band is led by GIRLS NAMES drummer Neil and features other GNs for live shows. A 12” EP and Cassette Album are currently available via CF RECORDS. 

Video: Peripheral Vision